THE

CANADIAN

Naturalist and Geologist,

AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE

NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY

OF MONTREAL.

CONDUCTED BY A COMMITTEE OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.

VOLUME VII.

Montreal:

PUBLISHED BY DAWSON BROTHERS, 23 GREAT ST. JAMES ST.

1862.

CANADIAN NATURALIST.

This Magazine is published bi-monthly, and is conducted by a Committee of the Natural History Society of Montreal.

EDITORS FOR THE YEAR 1862-3.

J. W. DAWSON, LL.D., F.G.S., Principal of Mc Gill College.

T. STERRY HUNT, A.M., F.R.S., Chemist to Geological Survey of Canada. E. BILLINGS, F.G.S., Paleontologist,

PROF. S. P. ROBBINS.

General Editor.-DAVID A. POE WATT.

EX OFFICIO.

W. H. HINGSTON, M.D., Corresponding Secretary Nat. Hist. Society. JOHN LEEMING, Recording Secretary

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Entered according to the Act of the Provincial Parliament, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-two, by DAWSON BROTHERS, in the Office of the Registrar of the Province of Canada.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.

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ARTICLE I.-On the Primitive Formations in Norway and in Canada,

Part I. By Thomas Macfarlane.....

II.-On the Shore Zones and Limits of Marine Plants in

the United States. By the Rev. Alex. F. Kemp..... 20

III.-Contributions to Meteorology for the year 1861, By

Charles Smallwood, M.D. LL. D....

IV. On the Mammals and Birds of the District of Montreal.

By Archibald Hall, M.D. Part II.

V.-Note on the Taconic System of Emmons.

Hunt, M.A., F.R.S..

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By T. Sterry

78

VI.-Notes on the Flora of the White Mountains, in its Geo-

graphical and Geological relations. By J. W. Daw-

son, LL.D., F.G.S.......

VII.—On the failure of the Apple Trees in the neighborhood

of Montreal. By John Archbold....

VIII.-On an Erect Sigillaria and a Carpolite from the Joggins,

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Nova Scotia. By J. W. Dawson, LL.D., F.G.S..... 106

IX.-On the Primitive Formations in Norway and in Ca-

nada. Part II. By Thomas Macfarlane....

X.-The New Spectrum Discoveries...

XI.-List of Diurnal Lepidoptera from the vicinity of

London, C. W. By W. Saunders...

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By Bernard R.

XII.-An account of the Botanical and Mineral products,

used by the Chipewyan Indians.

Ross.....

137

XIII.-List of Mammals, Birds, and Eggs, from the McKen-

zie's River District. By Bernard R. Ross......

XIV.-Notes on Chemical Subjects. By Prof. S. P Robbins.. 155

XV. On the date of the Report on the Geology of Wiscon-

sin. By E. Billings....

156

XVI.-On the Primitive Formations in Norway and in Cana-

da. Part III. By Thomas Macfarlane...

XVII.-On the Mammals and Birds of the District of Montreal.

By Archibald Hall, M.D. Part III...

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XVIII.-On the Extraction of Cobalt Oxide from Iron Pyrites. By

Thomas Macfarlane..

194

S. Bethune...

XIX.-List of Entomologists in Canada. By Rev. Charles J.

XX.-On the Chemistry of the Earth. By T. Sterry Hunt,

M.A., F.R.S.....

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201

XXI.-Description of a new Enaliosaurian from the Coal Mea-

sures of Nova Scotia. By O. C. Marsh, B. A................. 205

XXII-A Lecture on Force. By Prof. John Tyndal, F.R.S.. 241

XXIII.-On the Utilisation of the Power involved in the Rise

and Fall of the Tides....

XXIV. On the Primitive Formations. From the German of

Naumann, by Thomas Macfarlane...

XXV.-On Aphis Avena. By George Lawson, Ph. D., LL.D. 264

XXVI.-On the footprints of Limulus, by J. W. Dawson,

LL.D., F.R.S., &c.......

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